Aaro MURPHY

Profile

Born in 1991 in Jyväskylä, Finland. Lives and works in Amsterdam and Helsinki. Graduated with an MA from Studio for Immediate Spaces department at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam in 2017.
Working across video, sound and sculpture, Murphy creates time-based installations that question boundaries between the organic and synthetic. 

Recent exhibitions and activities
2024 “Fickle (Gritty) Memory,” SOLU Space, Helsinki
2023 “Volatile Score,” Kunsthalle Turku, Finland
2021 “Running Idle,” Art Rotterdam
2020 “Vexer,” Bologna.cc, Amsterdam
2020 “Occulting Disk,” Industry, Brno, Czech Republic

Awards
2024 "Working Grant," Arts Promotion Centre Finland ("Taike")
2023 "Young Artist Grant," Finnish Arts Society
2022 "Research Fellow," Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam

About works

Murphy’s works explore wider themes of climate, urbanisation, the body and technology through writing, scientific research and cross disciplinary collaborations. As an alumni research fellow at the Sandberg Institute; Studio for Immediate Spaces 2023 Murphy’s practice explores cities and their often invisible architectural networks, through video, text and sculptural interventions. In this process Murphy attempts to find a fragile sculptural quality in the hidden technologies that build up much of urban fabric. Murphy’s work has been exhibited at Art Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Turku, SOLU space Helsinki, Oude Kerk Amsterdam, Bologna.cc and Osage Gallery Hong Kong. His projects have been supported by Mondriaan Funds (Netherlands), Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Finnish Institute in Japan, Arts Promotion Centre Finland ("Taike") and SKR (Finland).